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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1879
Page
2
The text describes a sequence of mishaps in a household involving fabric choices for trousers, a whipping at school for a son, a leaking roof damaging rugs, and a mirror and lamp breaking during movement. The passage reads as a stream of domestic misfortunes with characters Fred John Jane and a child referenced in the school incident.
A reflective verse from All the Year Round warns that harsh lessons nature and time teach the young require restraint and care. It urges leaving vulnerable youth to patient nurture, faith, and prayer, while accepting life’s bitter lessons without harsh control.
A sailor recalls the Niger voyage to Hilo and Puget Sound where English mate Jack Chester faked madness to escape captaincy. The crew heard eerie voices from aloft, sparking superstition, while Chester’s ruse ends with revelation in San Francisco.
The article reflects on the April 7 elections with Chicago’s Democratic shift contrasted with Republican gains in Ohio and Michigan. It argues the North’s victories foreshadow the national race, warning Southern factions they have not captured the capital and that the North remains solidified against the Confederacy.
The Cincinnati Gazelle questions how War Democrats view the national crisis and whether their past opposition to rebellion is worth the current subservience of Northern Democrats to Confederate aims. It argues War Democrats now see elections overturned in the South and North, urging a collapse of criminal laws to keep power from Confederate control.
A critique extols the Democratic party for relentless blunders, describing their missteps as cornerstones of political folly. It argues Republicans may count on Democratic errors to gain advantage, while warning such reliance undermines genuine reform and self reliance.
The Indianapolis Journal cautions Republicans to avoid depending only on Democratic mistakes to stay in power. It urges maintaining vigilance and preparation while noting blunders can aid but must not be the sole strategy.
A sweeping roundup notes 13 000 city and state salaried officeholders and 7 000 paid from the federal Treasury. It cites emigrants 41 626 last year with 41 124 Irish natives and a 35 percent share heading to the United States, plus global Bible distributions and a joke about Newburyport fishing hooks. It lists post office salary readjustments and a full tally of presidential offices by state, then contrasts London street accidents from 1868 to 1877 showing rising deaths and injuries across carts, omnibuses, cars, and velocipedes.
A London boarding house near Regent's Park hides a remarkable resident a courageous woman jockey. She rides dangerous horses across England from Doncaster to London markets to earn bread and shelter. Her brutal workload leaves her bruised but proud, never shying from risk as she proves her performance in races.
A colonial style guide lists recipes and tips including mixing Graham flour with water for bread, making ham balls with chopped ham and egg, oatmeal simmering for breakfast, and remedies for hoarseness using horse radish. It also covers frying salt pork, baking Graham bread, rich beef broth, rice croquettes, and spinach preparation without water. Mentioned are butter washing brine and dairy notes from the American Dairyman.
The article outlines several brine based methods to cleanse butter. Techniques include washing after cooling, brine saturation to dissolve caseine, and resting periods before gathering. It discusses stopping churns before gathering and brining the mass to improve texture and flavor while enabling salting adjustments for consumer taste.
Kentucky tale details Tom Buford’s deadly bravado after assassinating Judge Elliott. He pointed a double barrel shotgun at a sheriff’s posse at his gate and, hosting dinner, warned officers to depart. The twenty six men balked, deeming Buford a dangerous neighbor, and left without attempting to seize the land.
A column urges the tidy housewife during spring cleaning to cleanse the household through purifying the blood and regulating digestion to ward off spring malaria and miasma. It touts Hop Bitters as the most effective remedy.
An article extols blood purity as essential to health and life while warning that impure blood spreads disease. It prescribes Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pellets as cleansers and tonics, touting their use against scrofulous diseases and other ailments. It also urges selecting the best yeast, praising National Yeast as superior.
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